NEWS RELEASE SFPUC Contact: John Coté 415-417-9319 jcote@sfwater.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 25, 2022 Macy has been the City of Los Angeles’ top human resources official for the last seven years SAN FRANCISCO – The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) announced today that it has hired renowned human resources leader Wendy Macy as the agency’s new Chief People Officer. Macy will lead the SFPUC’s Human Resource Services team and oversee all recruitment and retention for an agency of more than 2,200 staff working in a service territory that stretches from the Pacific Ocean to

SAN FRANCISCO – The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC)’s clean energy program, CleanPowerSF , signed a new battery storage contract with a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources to support grid reliability for the State and the program’s 385,000 residential and commercial customers. The battery storage project, located in Riverside County, is expected to be fully operational in time for wildfire season. “As California continues to experience the effects of climate change, enhancing grid reliability and investing further in our clean energy future is a top priority,” SFPUC

Ghosts, goblins and witches bring the fright of Halloween night. But nothing does it quite like the jack-o-lantern’s light. These giant pumpkins were not created from the magical wand of Cinderella’s Fairy Godmother but instead were grown by the team at the SFPUC's Wastewater Resource Recovery Division. The orange gourds were grown using biosolids.